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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Meeting Minutes (Friday 1/23/15) – OFA NVMe Windows Driver Q1`2015 Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Agenda:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Review 1.4 Release (Kwok – PMC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Confirmation of Ray and Carolyn as the chairperson and source maintainer (All)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Planning for 2016 and beyond (Ray)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">AOB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Opens:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">PMC: Kwok nominated Intel reps Raymond Robles and Carolyn Foster to take over OFA chair and source maintainer role, respectively, for 2015. No objections from working group. Ray and
Carolyn will take over roles effective immediately. <b><u>A huge thanks to Kwok and Alex for all their hard work over the last year.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Dell: How will future releases be WHQL’d? 1.4 release was WHQL’d with PMC hardware. Identify a WHQL strategy moving forward for OFA driver (which hardware, who owns the WHQL certification
process, price, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Intel: Confirm with OFA working group on any changes to driver releases, planning meetings, and cadence. Working group agreed to keep all planning items “as is”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Intel: Requested a replacement for LSI/Avago/Seagate as a mandatory reviewing member company. A vote was taken on whether a 3<sup>rd</sup> mandatory company was needed (for reviewing
and testing). Approved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Dell: Abstain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Intel: Yes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Samsung: Yes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">PMC: Yes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">HGST: Abstain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Intel: With the working group approving the need for a 3<sup>rd</sup> mandatory reviewing member company, a request for volunteers was made by Intel. Kwok suggested Samsung. HGST was
suggested by Judy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Samsung: Will follow up with management and notify OFA working group within 2 weeks (AR: Judy - 2 weeks)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">HGST: Will follow up with management and notify OFA working group within 2 weeks (AR: Tom - 2 weeks)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Intel: Open discussion on features for 2015 OFA releases:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Intel:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">NVMe 1.1/1.2 features. Discussion on mandatory and optional features. Follow up discussion needed to close.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Start I/O Concurrent Channels (potential performance increase on high core counts).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Samsung:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Instead of learning cores, use perf opts. Shave off 2 seconds in init code… using Storport initialize perf opts. No need for source core interrupt steering code in driver.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Storport Notification usage. Hot plug and IOCTLs, this does not work, for Win8.1… StorportRequestTimer() function needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">CFS bit monitoring and handling. Look into adding additional handling code just to monitor CSTS.CFS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Read only support for devices at EOL. Detection at init, hot plug, or run-time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">AR’s:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Dell (Austin): Identify initial WHQL strategy for 2015 (mid-February… next meeting to discuss).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Samsung (Judy): Follow up with management on becoming 3<sup>rd</sup> mandatory reviewing member company for OFA (2 weeks).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">UPDATE (1/30/15): Samsung has agreed to become 3<sup>rd</sup> mandatory reviewing member company. Thanks Judy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">HGST (Ken): Follow up with management on becoming 3<sup>rd</sup> mandatory reviewing member company for OFA (2 weeks).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Intel (Ray): Provide preliminary list of 1.1/1.2 features, both mandatory and optional, to start discussion on what to include in 2015 releases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Intel (Ray): Communicate with Ken Strandberg at OFA website for logistical changes (mid-February… next meeting).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Next Meeting:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Mid February 2015… to plan for next release and finalize feature list for 2015 OFA driver releases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Raymond C. Robles<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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